The Immigrant, a "Deeply Satisfying" New Play
San Jose Repertory Theatre, Across from the San Antonio light rail station (101 Paseo de San Antonio San Jose, CA 95113)
- Full Price:
- $33.00
- Our Price:
- $16.50*
* Additional fees apply.
All offers for The Immigrant have expired.
The last date listed for The Immigrant was Sunday February 26, 2006 / 7:00pm.
More Information About The Immigrant
Quotes & Highlights
- "A deeply satisfying new musical, with much on its mind." --New York Times
- "A lovely and loving evening of theater. Harelik's story is tender and touching." --Hollywood Reporter
- "A funny new play by a new U S A playwright. The scenes evoke the rural era with the firm-handed clarity of a Jewish Horton Foote...they glow." --USA Today
Description
<p>A touching and uplifting true story that follows a young Jewish man who, fleeing the oppression of Czarist Russia in 1909, winds up pushing his banana cart into the tiny Baptist town of Hamilton, Texas. Given shelter by a childless older couple, he sends for his wife, raises a family, and makes the tiny Texas town his home. </p> <p>This unlikely story of “blooming where you’re planted” is based on the life of Harelik’s grandfather, a champion of the movement to relocate immigrating Eastern European Jews away from the Eastern seaboard cities toward the labor-hungry, open West—a program that brought nearly 10,000 people to America through Galveston, Texas. The Immigrant is a tale of parents and children, newcomers and natives, Christians and Jews, and the realization that the dreams that bind us together are often the same.</p>